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Cabinet - Sources

Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Portable Sundials
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Hussite Wagon-Fort
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James Hannington - St. Peter's College
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Cardo
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
The arts: liberal and mechanical
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Saami man
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T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
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Three Wartime Photos of Usmon Akramov (Tajikistan)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
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